disney at christmas

[Sherry E]

Bumping...Anyone have any new pictures? Anyone know if there is a special meal for Christmas Day at the hotels ?

Thank you so much for taking over bumping duties!! I have been lagging in the bumping department lately. I am so glad to know there are other folks out there who are dedicated to this thread as well! We were on a good roll with the photos and info - we mustn't lose momentum!!

And you are right - we still have these questions out there:

1. Are there are any special meals served exclusively on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day (either in the form of a holiday banquet/buffet at the DLH or maybe a special Christmas menu at certain other places in DLR):

2. Does anyone have any photos of the Christmas stocking you can order from Vacation Planning (I believe Aussuetravellers said it came with the little tree)?


Also, I would love to see more photos of anything DLR holiday-ish. Have you done the holiday tour? Did you get lots of 'snow pictures' when the snow was falling on Main Street? Did you attend the Candlelight Processional? If anyone has any other holiday tips or things to do/look out for at DLR during the holidays, it would be great if you could share that here with us.

Oh, I almost forgot to tell smiley_face2 that I love those photos by the Christmas trees on the previous page!! My old 35 mm camera died when I was trying to photograph Mickey's and Minnie's trees in ToonTown, and I would have loved to see a Toy Story tree - that's kind of what I was looking for at DLR last year. Trees with themes. It seems World of Disney may be the place to go for the themed trees!!

 

[azdisneylover]

Bump Are there special pressed pennies for the holidays anywhere in the park? If so, where?

 

[Disneylvrforever]

Bump Are there special pressed pennies for the holidays anywhere in the park? If so, where?

If they make holiday ones, it would be @ the Penny Arcade & they usually always make quarter ones every year for HMH/NBC & it would be in NOS somewhere, maybe outside by Le Bat en Rouge.

 

[Raine88]

Just a few questions about the holiday tour.

1. What rides do you go on?
2. Were the seats for the parade good?
3. Was it fun/would you recommend it?
4. Do you feel it was worth the money?

 

[sierranevada]

Just a few questions about the holiday tour.

1. What rides do you go on?
2. Were the seats for the parade good?
3. Was it fun/would you recommend it?
4. Do you feel it was worth the money?

1. You go on HMH and IASWH
2. Seats for the parade are awesome - right across from IASWH. You also get hot chocolate and a treat while you are seated.
3. We love it and have done it several times!
4. IMHO, it is worth the money.

 

[Christina-B-Na]

These are from 2008.

Mary Poppins show in front of the castle.

 

[tksbaskets]

1. You go on HMH and IASWH
2. Seats for the parade are awesome - right across from IASWH. You also get hot chocolate and a treat while you are seated.
3. We love it and have done it several times!
4. IMHO, it is worth the money.

I concur with sierranavada! I have just completed my trip report from this past Christmas and include information about the tour. The link is in my signature if you want to go and check it out.

Dreaming of a gingerbread cookie now

 

[aussietravellers]

Just a few questions about the holiday tour.

1. What rides do you go on?
2. Were the seats for the parade good?
3. Was it fun/would you recommend it?
4. Do you feel it was worth the money?

We did the holiday tour too and for us it was well worth the money and we would do it again because we loved it. The hot chocolate was so yummy and we loved the mugs, it was so nice watching the parade as it cooled down in the afternoon and sipping the hot chocolate. The seating was fantastic!!! After you have picked up your hot chocolate, follow right behind your guide so you can grab the front row seating

 

[aussietravellers]

Here is a photo of the Christmas Stocking that we ordered through Vacation Planning or Dream Makers before we left home. It was waiting on the bed (with the contents inside the stocking) when we checked into the hotel. We also had the Christmas Tree (the photos of that are back on another page). This is a separate thing and doesn't come with the tree. I can't remember now how much it was, Sorry, it has completely slipped my mind. It had my son's name on the little card at the front and contained a container of Pez with a snowman Pez, a Vinylmation, a Disney Holiday Melodies CD, a backscratcher and a light up spinning thing and of course the gorgesous stocking.

 

[Sherry E]

Aussietravellers! I am so glad to see you back on this thread - you disappeared from here for a while. I was sending out silent signals to you in hopes you'd come back. I have been directing people to the photos of your adorable Christmas Tree from Vacation Planning, because I think more folks would want one of those trees once they see the pictures. But I couldn't remember if you said you had gotten the wonderful stocking too, so I am glad you posted the photos!! Now I want one of those stockings because I want the Christmas medley CD! Thank you so much!

I had also totally forgotten that you did the holiday tour, so we hit the jackpot with you!! Seeing that photo that you took from the seats you got with the holiday tour, I can see I might have to do that tour. That is a great seat! Again, I think if more people see that photo and realize that was the kind of seat you had by doing the tour, they will want to do the tour as well! Fantastic! People think 'parade,' and they assume it means standing behind tall people obstructing the view. If they see what your view was with the seats you had, I bet there will be lots more holiday tour bookings in 2010!!

One other thing - you were at DLR over Christmas, correct? At least that's what I thought I recalled. If so, do you remember any special meals being served specifically on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day? Anything at the DLH? Anything special on the menus of DLR restaurants just on those two days? One of our DIS-ers asked this a while back and it would be great to find out.

 

[aussietravellers]

Aussietravellers! I am so glad to see you back on this thread - you disappeared from here for a while. I was sending out silent signals to you in hopes you'd come back. I have been directing people to the photos of your adorable Christmas Tree from Vacation Planning, because I think more folks would want one of those trees once they see the pictures. But I couldn't remember if you said you had gotten the wonderful stocking too, so I am glad you posted the photos!! Now I want one of those stockings because I want the Christmas medley CD! Thank you so much!

I had also totally forgotten that you did the holiday tour, so we hit the jackpot with you!! Seeing that photo that you took from the seats you got with the holiday tour, I can see I might have to do that tour. That is a great seat! Again, I think if more people see that photo and realize that was the kind of seat you had by doing the tour, they will want to do the tour as well! Fantastic! People think 'parade,' and they assume it means standing behind tall people obstructing the view. If they see what your view was with the seats you had, I bet there will be lots more holiday tour bookings in 2010!!

One other thing - you were at DLR over Christmas, correct? At least that's what I thought I recalled. If so, do you remember any special meals being served specifically on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day? Anything at the DLH? Anything special on the menus of DLR restaurants just on those two days? One of our DIS-ers asked this a while back and it would be great to find out.

Thanks for the welcome back SherryE

I have been lurking but mainly on the WDW boards and the Australian Board for my upcoming trip to WDW in a few months .

I will keep adding photos of the parade in my post above that I took from the Holiday Tour seating, I am just adding them to photobucket now.

No sadly, we were not there actually over Christmas, we were there for two weeks leading up to Christmas and left on 23rd so we arrived home Christmas Day in Australia (we lose a day when flying home to Australia crossing the international date line, but do gain a day when going over so it all evens out and in Australia we celebrate actually in Christmas Day, not on Christmas Eve like in the US so my family said we had to be home for Christmas lunch and we made it) so I am sorry, I can not remember about the Christmas meals.

I will go now and add some more photos of the parade to my above post

 

[specialks]

Thank you aussietravellers -- that stocking picture is what I have been waiting for! I will have to consider adding that onto our Dec plans!

 

[Canadian Traveler]

Sounds wonderful!!!! We are going week of Christmas and are sooooo excited!!

 

[Sherry E]

 

[deejdigsdis]

We were just there last week. Boy, did we ever miss the Christmas season decorations that were up when we went in November! I will definitely dig around for more photos to post. I don't have any info on Holiday meals or tours, but I know I have some snow pictures that I can post hopefully later today.

 

[Sherry E]

We were just there last week. Boy, did we ever miss the Christmas season decorations that were up when we went in November! I will definitely dig around for more photos to post. I don't have any info on Holiday meals or tours, but I know I have some snow pictures that I can post hopefully later today.

Yes, snow pictures!!! Yay, pictures!

(And eventually someone will join this thread who has been at DLR on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day and can tell us if there are any special meals. I had forgotten that Aussietravellers left just before the holiday.)

Some of my DIS friends - Prettyprincessbelle & Mariezp, to name a couple - have DLR holiday photos. I have seen them in their Trip Reports!! In fact, if I recall, I think Marie has a photo of one of those DLR popcorn carts with Santa spinning the popcorn inside. But both PPB and Marie have abandoned us here in our little Disney at Christmas super thread. Sniff sniff.

You bring up an interesting observation, deejdigsdis, about missing the Christmas decorations. I think I have spoiled myself for ever going to DLR at other times besides Halloween and Christmastime! Of course, I grew up going to the 'regular' Disneyland, and continued to be perfectly content with that version of DL for many many years. That's what I fell in love with - the regular old magic of Disneyland and the Disneyland Hotel and all of that. But, once I started going more often for the holidays, that became my absolute favorite time and I could suddenly make the comparison between regular DL and holiday DL (DLR), and there was no question that the magic of 'Holiday DLR' was on a whole other level than the regular version. It really is DLR...in all its fantasy and magic and glory...but amplified by a thousand, with more color, aromas, sights, sounds, tastes and activities to indulge in than can even be processed by all the senses! It's almost a totally different experience than regular DLR, except for the familiar rides that we love to go on each trip.

 

[Sherry E]

Bump!

 

[Sherry E]

Time for a good, old fashioned BUMP!

 

[disneymom23]

I feel the same way as Sherry. I'm excited for our trip in July. It will be just me and the kids. But I know while we're there, I'll be planning our Christmas trip. Nothing beats the holidays at Disney!

 

[Sherry E]

Time for a good old fashioned bump!!